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travelour

travelour is the obsolete spelling of traveller.

Meaning of traveller

Noun

traveller (plural travellers)

  1. One who travels, especially to distant lands.
    • They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371
  2. (dated) A salesman who travels from place to place on behalf of a company.
  3. (UK) Someone who lives (particularly in the UK) in a caravan, bus or other vehicle rather than a fixed abode.
  4. A list and record of instructions that follows a part in a manufacturing process.
    Synonyms:
    router
  5. One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
  6. A metal ring that moves freely on part of a ship’s rigging.

See all 11 meanings of traveller

Forms of travelour

pluraltravelours

Questions about travelour

What is travelour the obsolete spelling of?
Travelour is the obsolete spelling of traveller.

Words near travelour in the dictionary

  1. travelogue
  2. traveloguelike
  3. traveloguer
  4. traveloguers
  5. travelogues
  6. travelour
  7. travelours
  8. travelpreneur
  9. travelpreneurs
  10. travels
  11. travels light

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Adapted from Wiktionary: travelour (page history and authors); traveller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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